: A history of tithes by Clarke Henry William - Tithes History

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Abraham the first recorded payer of tithes, 1. Old Testament passages for payment of tithes, 1. When tithes ceased to be paid by Jews, 2. Heathen nations paid tithes, 2. Story about Adam having paid tithes, 3.

Landing of Augustine in England, 13. Cordial reception by King of Kent, 17. Christianity established in his kingdom, 14. Creation of Archbishopric of Canterbury, and Bishoprics of London and Rochester, 15. Augustine's questions to Pope Gregory and his reply, 16, 17. How Bishops and their Clergy were at first maintained in England, 17. Brewer's and Dibdin's translation of "portiones," 17. Quadripartite division, 17. Blackstone's opinion, 18. Bishops' churches, and chapels of ease, 18. Did Augustine preach payment of tithes? 19. King Ethelbert's grant of tithes a fiction, 19. Fuller's misleading statements in "Our Title Deeds," 19.

Theodore's "Penitential," by "Discipulus Umbrensium," 20. Its genuineness, 20. Bede's silence about it, 21. Bede in evidence as to the common law right of the poor to a share of the tithes, 21. Landowners' churches, their origin, 23, 24. The parish bank, 24. Edgar's law of giving one-third of tithes to Manorial Church, 26. Domesday's testimony as to the one-third, 26. Mother churches had remaining two-thirds, 26. Church seats free, 27. No pew rents, 27. Tithes first voluntary, afterwards compulsory, 28. The "Confessional" and its power to get tithes, 28.

His "Penitential," 29. His "Confessional" and "Excerptions," 29. The "Excerptions" not Egbert's, 30. Effect of this on Roman Catholic Church, 30. Selden's opinions on the "Excerptions," 30-32.

Dean Prideaux on this grant and on Selden's "History of Tithes," 53. Selden's erroneous view on this grant, 53. Opinions of Saxon Chroniclers on it, 54. Folcland and Bocland defined, 56, 57. Kemble's six canons to test genuineness of charters, 59. Ethelwulf's charters thus tested, 59, 60. The Malmesbury Cartulary, 60. Ethelwulf's second charter of grants, 62. Kemble's opinion on Ethelwulf's first and second grants, 64, 65. Charter C, an abridgment of William of Malmesbury's charter, 65. Selden's conclusion on Ethelwulf's charter, 65, 66.

The old minster, 81. Chapels of ease, 81. Landlords' churches, 81. Church boundaries conterminous with landowners' estates, 82. Manorial Churches in Domesday with one-third of tithes, 82. Errors created by confounding original meaning of "parochia," with subsequent meaning, 83. Selden on Edgar's law, 84. Bishop Kennett on Manorial Churches, 85. The parish bank, 83. Lay patrons had taken two-thirds of tithes for poor and repairing Churches, 86. Edgar's canons and gloss to same, 86, 87. Origin of his canons, 88. Population of England in Anglo-Saxon times, 91. Population when tithes were first given, 92. Populations in A.D. 787, A.D. 927, and A.D. 960, respectively, 92, 93. Number of Bishops in England in A.D. 705, p. 93. Number at Conquest, 93.

His nine laws, by Thorpe, 94, 95. Church Grith law, A.D. 1014, p. 95. Art. 6 enacts the tripartite division of tithes, 95. Bishop Stubbs's views in his history on the tripartite division, 96, 97. His views in private letters, 97. Origin of Sir Robert Cotton's library, 98. His death, 100. Catalogue of library, 100. First printed catalogue, 100. Library vested in trustees, 100. Second catalogue, 100. History of the "Worcester" volume, Nero, A. 1, p. 101. Lord Selborne's object is to upset the Act of A.D. 1014, pp. 101, 102. Selden and Spelman never saw the Church Grith law, 103, 104. Lambarde, Wheelock, and John Johnson, never saw it, 104. Thorpe's opinion of Wilkins's "Concilia," 106. Price's evidence is worthless, 107, 108. Freeman's history, like Stubbs's, is in favour of the genuineness of Church Grith law, but contradicts himself in his private letters on same subject, 108, 109, 110, 111. Old Latin Translators of the Anglo-Saxon laws omit fifteen Anglo-Saxon laws, 112. Dr. Lingard accepts this law as genuine, 116. Contents of Worcester volume, Nero, A. 1 stated, 117. Brewer, supported, but Dibden denies, the tripartite division, 119, 120. Mr. Thorpe in favour of the genuineness of this law, 121. Canute's laws in three branches, 121. He modelled his laws on Edgar's and Ethelred's, 121. Thirty-six of the forty-four articles in the Church Grith law are incorporated in Canute's, 121. How Lord Selborne disposes of the other eight, 121. When Poor Law Act was passed, why did not Parliament claim a portion of the tithe for the poor? This is answered, 123.

Tithe a tax on industry, 201. Paley's and Adam Smith's views on tithes, 201. Lord Althorp failed to solve the tithe problem, 202. Sir R. Peel's scheme, 202. Lord Russell's Commutation Bill, 202, 203. The principle of the Commutation Act, 203. Lord Russell said, "Tithes were the property of the nation," 203. Formula for finding the tithe-rent charge for any year, 204. The wording of the 80th section, by which the landlord is to pay the tithe, 204, 205. But generally the tenant contracted himself out of this section, 205. The injustice of tithe-rent charges on one kind of property, 206. A re-valuation would be unjust and impracticable, 207, 208. The repeal of the Corn Laws an injustice to the tithe-owners, 208. Difference in amount between tithe and tithe-rent charge, 207.

The gross commuted value of the Tithes in the four Welsh dioceses in 1836, p. 216. The same in 1890, p. 217. The clerical appropriations in Bangor, Llandaff, St. Asaph and St. David's, 217-221. The Vicars-choral of St. Asaph, 219. The amount of tithe-rent charge in possession of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in each of the thirteen counties in 1890, p. 223. Amount still outstanding on leases, p. 223. The annual payments of the Common Fund to the Welsh bishops, chapters, Archdeacon Lampeter, and parochial incumbents, p. 223. The net income derived from Wales, 224. The total gross revenues of the four Welsh dioceses from all sources, 224. Population of Church people and of Dissenters in the four dioceses, 224.

One of the main objects in passing this Act, 238. County court, a new machine, removing friction between tithe-owner and tithe-payer, 239. The tithe-payer cannot be imprisoned for non-payment, 240. Provision made to prevent collision between landowner and tithe-payer, 240. Section 4 upsets the main principle of the Act. 241. The tithe-owner must pay all rates, etc., 241. The Relief clause quite a misnomer, 242.

Tithe-rent charges in 1836 of--

A. Archbishops and Bishops, 243.

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